W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need to cease allowing the past to define us. We are evolving as a human race, and just because war and aggressive competition has always been a part of our heritage, that doesn’t mean we are forever destined to war and engage in aggressive competition.
We are moving forward to a time when the heart will guide us. We once had to fight to survive, and some still do. Yet now it is time to lay down our weapons and open our hearts to the expansive potential of human compassion and creativity.
Where our attention goes, energy flows. Do we continue to focus on opposition and give it our energy? Or do we begin to focus our energy on our own authentic freedom to shine and help to illuminate the world? The choice is ours.
There are no mistakes – you are exactly where you need to be, and you were born with the precise gifts needed to transform a dying world into a thriving planet.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.”
“We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?”
“We need to challenge our own thinking.”
“We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.”
“We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.”
“We need to change how we do things. We should choose the best people for jobs not just our friends. We should not ask people to pay us bribes to build roads. We should not ask people for extra money to get their land certificates. They should only pay the right amount. All if these actions are types of corruption.”
Source: Emeka's Money: A modern parable about the impact of corruption.
“We need to change how we talk about Israel and Palestine. There is no point in talking about peace, as if both sides are equally at fault, when the process we’re really talking about is decolonisation. Historical Palestine has been subject to settler colonialism for over a century, at great cost. Decolonisation is closely associated with other terms that mainstream political discourse in the West avoids when it comes to Israel and Palestine: liberation and reconciliation.”
Source: A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
“We need to change our attitude and assist the poor”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.”
“We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.”
“We need to change the rules of accountability so big business can become the major contributing factor in our salvation.”
“We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.”
“We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.”
“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.”
Source: Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit
“We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.”
Source: How to be Idle
“We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.”
“We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.”
“We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.”
“We need to come to God humbly. We are not his master he is our master.”
Source: When You Don't Know What to Pray: How to Talk to God about Anything
“We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.”
“We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.”
Source: The Culture of Education
“We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.”
Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
“We need to connect with the image of an expanding source - one which never becomes stagnant or gets tired of growing and improving. And when we see there are no limits to our potential, we can tap into abundance knowing there's more than enough.”
“We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then we are ready to do something really interesting and beautiful which is to claim a connection with the wisdom of the kinds of ancestors we do want to be in contact with. But we can't do this until we've cleaned out the lower stuff that is hindering us.”
“We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”
“We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.”
“We need to consider the components of our life that are less than ideal. Acute focus will yield areas for improvement.”
“We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.”
“We need to constantly absorb energy from the universe through food, exercise, and daily activities and need to conserve the use of energy for a vibrant, healthy, and long life.”
“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer.
Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.”
Source: Ten Billion
“We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.”
“We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.”
“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.”
“We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.”
“We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.””
“We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.”
“We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security for peaceful resignation. That's very important because we're all afraid that he will stick to power to his deathbed and just kill a lot of people along the way. If he is willing to go, we shall buy him an island in the Caribbean or in the Pacific Ocean with nice girls - like a separate country for him.”
“We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.”
“We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“We need to create a new paradigm of development and happiness that can generate a three-dimensional peace – peace with ourselves, peace with other people and peace with mother earth. Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.”
“We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.”
“We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.”
“We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.”
“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.”
“We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.”
“We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.”
“We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth so we can have an economic system that can turn our natural wealth into a productive system. We need services, because poverty reduction cannot take place without effective citizenship.”
“We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.”
“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”